Oh come on guys, it was a joke. I'm not sure that my librarian mother is even capable of uttering the words "cocksucking asshole." What she actually told me is that if I voted for a Republican she would build a time machine, go back to 1971 and have an abortion.

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"I am having a difficult time letting my son go to a rally because I don't agree with his cause...but if I am raising him to live his life and be an example of being tolerant of others beliefs I have to be supportive right ??? Comments plz."

Gosh, I hope Andy & crew are gonna rush right in here and denounce Wisconsin Democrats as gay-haters, because last time I looked calling someone a cocksucker was just a meaner & crueler way of calling them a faggot.

I guess there are more people than right-wing Christians who are homophobes. Who Knew?

"I did abort you for reasons other than voting but you survived that effort and your entire upbringing has been one long ordeal of managing the steaming pile of seething hatred that is you. Please, please, vote however you wish, but do vote and begone."

Democrats are okay with killing innocents. After all, better that a million innocents die than a union boss lose their cushy lifestyle.

That's the caudillo mentality that gets transported to cities and governments all across our country. Republicans aren't at all immune to it, but these days it's the Democrats who support, promote and will fight for such a system, all while using rhetoric about the poor to maintain the corruption.

All the articles on this subject that I have read have been from men. They denounce women as alone guilty, and never include man in any plans for the remedy...Guilty? Yes. No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed [abortion]. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; But oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!

Signed "A" in The Revolution (7/8/1869), the official publication of the National Woman Suffrage Association edited and published by feminists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

The abortion joking liberal is less interesting to me than the thing that Monkeyboy's friend said. It is the "live his life" part that arrests my attention. That part always arrests my attention. The construction presents a problem in translation.

In ASL the words 'live' and 'life' are the same word.

The words are expressed by an "L" on both hands taping the ribcage twice in and upward motion. It's a lovely word. Some users do distinguish between the two English words by tapping with the index finger for "live" and tapping with the thumbs for "life". Thus "live his life" is the same motion twice executed slightly differently which is a construction and series of motions that doesn't make sense in that language. So one of them must go. The sentence becomes instead, "I taught him to live ... "

One way to get around the "live" + "life" problem is to switch from index finger tap to thumb tap half way up the ribcage -- a mid-word switch that is an unconventional way to say either word, just to preserve the construction in English which is better expressed without the English construction. It is the kind of choice that I do make often enough to mark my style as highly idiosyncratic. Due to my tendency of mixing so much English into my sign for the sole purpose of maintaining vestiges of English constructions I make myself more difficult to penetrate. You have to know me awhile and know English well to see what I'm doing and have an appreciation for what to dismiss -- like switching live to life half way up the ribcage. It would only make sense to me and to people who know I pull shit like that.

I am often amazed in the differences in family cultures. My Mom would never, ever come close to either of the statements: she would never use profanity with regard to a politician, and she would never joke about abortion. Love you, Mom!

We have a grade school counselor who goes to the local church and signs for a few of the parishioners. I find myself paying closer attention to her than to the others who are verbal. It is actually a beautiful thing to watch and I get more out of the liturgy.

All my girlfriends told me to read "Eat Pray Love." I put it down and didn't pick it up again when I read for the second time a joke of "We don't care if the kid is born with some disease as long as it's not a Republican." What stupid shallow intolerant ignorant people. Yet she calls herself "enlightened."

I may vote democrat and I may vote republican, but I don't want to be around morons who think that kind of talk is clever.

When I was 13 (late 1950s), my Dad sat me down to give me "advice." The gist was, young lady you are about to embark on both an exciting and miserable time of your life, being a teenager and dating. Remember, if you do not date some out of your religion or race, you won't fall in love with them, and if you don't fall in love, then there is no risk of marrying them. Ignore this advice and you will leave yourself open to the worst kind of bigotry and make marriage harder to navigate due to outside forces. However, don't even think about bringing a democrat home or marrying one of those kind. I won't have it! I will disown you and remove your name from the family role.

My oldest son is a liberal (we dropped him on his head once - just sayin') and we supported his decision to vote for Barry. It was hard, but it was his first opportunity to vote and we thought it was important to teach him a lesson in the responsibilities of citizenship.

He moved into his own place last year and will have to register to vote where he lives. I don't know if he has done it or not, but knowing him and how busy he is probably not.

We're not reminding him. The danger is too great and he's an adult now. At least as adult as any liberal can be.

Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb? Mother do you think they'll like this song? Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls?Mother should I build the wall?Mother should I run for president?Mother should I trust the government?Mother will they put me in the firing line?Mother am I really dying?

Hush now baby, baby, dont you cry.Mother's gonna make all your nightmares come true.Mother's gonna put all her fears into you.Mother's gonna keep you right here under her wing.She wont let you fly, but she might let you sing.Mama will keep baby cozy and warm.Ooooh baby ooooh baby oooooh baby,Of course mama'll help to build the wall.

Mother do you think she's good enough -- to me?Mother do you think she's dangerous -- to me?Mother will she tear your little boy apart?Mother will she break my heart?

Hush now baby, baby dont you cry.Mama's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you.Mama wont let anyone dirty get through.Mama's gonna wait up until you get in.Mama will always find out where you've been.Mama's gonna keep baby healthy and clean.Ooooh baby oooh baby oooh baby,You'll always be baby to me.

As we mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this Supreme Court decision not only protects a woman’s health and reproductive freedom, but also affirms a broader principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters.

Must not intrude on private family matters unless it involves health care, the amount of water in your flush toilet, your light bulbs, and if the amount of income you earn is over $250,000.

Now, if she had told her son that if he were homosexual she would build a time machine, go back to 1971 and have an abortion, we'd be subjected to all kinds of lectures about how hateful that is, 'sweet mystery of life' and all that crap.

As we mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this Supreme Court decision not only protects a woman’s health and reproductive freedom, but also affirms a broader principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters.

Must not intrude on private family matters unless it involves health care, the amount of water in your flush toilet, your light bulbs, and if the amount of income you earn is over $250,000."

Or how much your kids weigh, what kinds of food you eat, what religion you believe, what kinds of websites you visit or blogs you post on. No el presidente is all for privacy.

Speaking of assholes and politics: I recall that Minneapolis had an assistant director for transient art and its mayor also ordered drinking fountains for about $50,000 apiece. Then fairly recently, Minneapolis had to cut back the ranks of the MPD and the MFD; not sure but perhaps to protect that assistant art director.

"As we mark the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we must remember that this Supreme Court decision not only protects a woman’s health and reproductive freedom, but also affirms a broader principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters."

In the same statement Obama also said the constitutional right to abortion "ensures our daughters have the same rights, freedoms and opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams". So in his view it's OK to eliminate children if they curtail a woman's "rights", hamper freedom and are a hindrance to dreams.